Here is the session 2 schedule...Subject to change.

Here's Liz Blaber's email: e.a.blaber@nasa.gov

Day 1

Morning Lecture:

Introduction PPT
Intro to Biotech PPT

Independent work:

Work on Personal page
Check Out:
Adventures in Synthetic Biology Comic book
Synthetic Biology explained (YouTube)
Decoding Synthetic Biology (YouTube)
The Promise and Perils of Synthetic Biology
Handmade Biology

Introduction to the lab

Lunch (11:00)

Lab (12:30):

Procedures of Genetic Engineering
Gel animation
Molecular Genetics Primer
Bozeman Biology: DNA and RNA - Part 1
Bozeman Biology: DNA and RNA - Part 2
McGraw-Hill Animation: DNA Replication
Bozeman Biology: DNA Replication
Bozeman Biology: Mutations

Protein Synthesis PPT_Autumn.ppt

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Survey for Autumn

Homework:

Finish personal page

Day 2

Morning Lecture:

Intro to synthetic biology PPT
Engineering Design PPT
Playing God (history of genetic engineering--YouTube) We may do this later

Independent work:

Check out:
Adventures in Synthetic Biology Comic book
Synthetic Biology explained (YouTube)
Decoding Synthetic Biology (YouTube)
The Promise and Perils of Synthetic Biology
Handmade Biology
and other synbio resources on Resources page

Lunch

Lab (in classroom):

Design challenge PPT
BioBuilder Design Assignment

Homework:

Work on Ethics Response

Day 3

Morning Lecture:

Control and tuning of gene expression PPT
Epigenetics PPT
Gene regulation Robert Tjian

Independent work:

Work on Ethics Response
Personal support time

Lunch

Lab:

Plasmid Extraction
mini-prep isolation of E. coli plasmid

Mini-prep video

Homework:

Day 4

Morning Lecture:

Field Trip Karp Lab

Independent work:

Lunch

Lab:

Homework:

Day 5

Morning Lecture:

Quorum sensing, two component system and bacterial photography PPT
Quorum Sensing Video
Bonnie Bassler--Tiny Conspiracies
Bonnie Bassler Ted Talk

Independent work:

Work on project or ethics discussion
Investigation of epigenetics

Lunch

Lab:

Ion Exchange Chromatography
Ion Exchange Chromatography video

Homework:

Day 6

Morning Lecture:

Genetic logic switches PPT
Christopher Voigt lecture of bacterial logic

Independent work:

Investigate Ethics and Safety links on SynBio, ethics and safety page.
Work on project

Lunch

Lab:

Southern Blot
Southern Blot 2015
Homework:

Day 7

Morning Lecture:

Chassis Design PowerPoint
Craig Venter synthetic life
George Church on Colbert

Independent work:

Work on project

Lunch

Lab:

Finish Southern Blot
Bacterial transformation
Kim's Bacterial transformation ppt
Bacterial Transformation lab Blue and Green (updated #222)

Homework:

Day 8

Morning Lecture:

Wired article Easy DNA editing will remake the world
What is CRSPR?
CRISPR Gene editing
America needs to figure out the ethics...
CRISPR could revolutionize ecosystem management
Ecological Implications of Synthetic Biology
Regulating Gene Drives
Gene Drives eLife article (click pdf icon on the upper right side of the page)
CRISPR Douda lecture
gene drives in mosquitos
CRISPR and human DNA
CRISPR Slides

Independent work:

Work on project

Lunch

Lab:

CRISPR lab link (easier than pdf)
CRISPR video from lab

Homework:

Day 9

Morning Lecture:

ELISA

Independent work:

Work on project

Lunch

Lab:

ELISA
http://www.tccbiotech.org/files/documents/BioRad_ELISAmanual.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNxZxJtvB94
ELISA Animation
ELISA Animation 2

Microarray lab

Homework:

Day 10

Morning Lecture:

Field Trip Museum of Science

Independent work:

Lunch

Lab:

Homework:

Day 11

Morning Lecture:

Jay Keasling on Microbe Engineering
Kristala Prather on Metabolic Engineering

Independent work:

Work on project

Lunch

Lab:

Fish protein electrophoresis
Seafood fraud
How seafood fraud works
If you eat fish...

Day 12

Morning Lecture:

PCR
DNA sequencing
Bioinformatics

Independent work:

Work on project

Lunch

Lab:

Finish Fish Protein
PCR PPT
PCR animation (YouTube)

Day 13

Morning Lecture:

Work on Project

Independent work:

Work on project

Lunch

Lab:

Finish PCR
Work on Project

Homework:

Day 14

Morning Lecture:

Project Presentations

Lunch

Lab:

Project Presentations

Day 15

Morning Lecture:

Project Presentation

Lunch

Lab:

Project Presentation